Gartner event focuses on security

Monday, 24 October 2005, 3:27 PM EST

With many keeping one eye on Hurricane Wilma churning off the coast, 6,000 IT executives last week heard Gartner analysts offer their vision on everything from security trends to wireless network directions. The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo 2005 also brought out 190 vendors.

Spotlight

By working with the DevOps team, you can ensure that the production environment is more predictable, auditable and more secure than before. The key is to integrate your security requirements into the DevOps pipeline.

A critical vulnerability in ANTlabs InnGate devices, a popular Internet gateway for visitor-based networks and commonly installed in hotels and convention centers, has been discovered. The flaw could allow an attacker to monitor or tamper with traffic to and from any hotel WiFi user's connection.

In this interview, Raj Samani, VP and CTO EMEA at Intel Security, talks about successful information security strategies aimed at the critical infrastructure, government challenges, the role of regulation, and more.